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I installed Maya last fall with Icelandic as my install language and it worked fine up until last week when Terminal stopped recognizing the Icelandic special characters such as þ æ ð and the accents ' and " and since a lot of directories have those characters in them I can't really navigate with terminal and certain programs don't open files in those directories since they don't recognize it's existance does anyone know how to get these characters back into terminal

Are those þ and ð in file names UTF-8 or 8-bit ISO-8859-1? In any case, if you need to enter those names in the terminal, replace the special character with ? and it should work, even as arguments to programs. Or use TAB for file name completion, that ought to work too.

FWIW, I had trouble with printing text in ISO-8859-1 and solved that my installing "good old" xterm and using that instead of the more modern terminal.